Jackman v. Short’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently February 2001
19 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Esteb v. Esteb · McFarlane v. McFarlane · Payette v. Payette · 92 Ind. App. 65 - Morris v. Morris · Streitwolf v. Streitwolf
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Whether as necessaries within the contemplation of the common law rule, or as a provision for education within the purview of our statute, we believe that awards for a college education made in behalf of a child displaying sufficient capacity are permissible. Reason, as well as the public policy of this state, favorable as it is to higher learning, permits no other conclusion. The high esteem in which college training is held in this state is unmistakably indicated by the numerous colleges found! in the various parts of this state”: 165 Ore. p. 656, 109 P. 2d p. 872.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[o]ne of the principal purposes of an education is still to train the young for the discharge of their duties to society and to afford them such knowledge of our government and American institutions that upon reaching majority they will intelligently perform their part in the great social order.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““. . . It is the birthright of every boy (or girl) to obtain at least a general and useful education. The responsibility of providing the necessary funds to assure this advantage to the minor rests primarily on the . . . (father). Untold sacrifices are made by parents who remain steadfast to their marital obligations in order to educate their children. The same responsibility rests on parents who seek and obtain a divorce. . . .” Underwood v. Underwood (1931), 162 Wash. 204 , 298 P. 318, 320 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dorman v. Dorman
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.